The ‘shunning of outsiders’ can be considered as a discreet case of social segregation, particularly when it
occurs as a parallel outcome of an educational process taking place within the context of a vocational educational
institution. Cultural affinity, as both a prerequisite and a final product of a target-oriented educational endeavour,
presents the advantage of facilitating the circulation and sharing of information and of offering mutually shared
codes for the decoding and understanding of the full meaning contained in the transmitted information in education.
Nonetheless, as this research in the Merchant Marine Academy of Greece indicates, social segregation can be
acknowledged as a consequence of an official admonition to ‘educational improvement’ in the field of maritime
education. The findings of this research suggest that the reproduction of the Greek nautical ethos through education
and practical training corresponds to the reproduction of social conformity within a cultural model of behavior.

Ioannis Sideris, 2012. Ethos, Habitus and Social Segregation in Social Networks and Educational Communities of Practice An Account of the Ecology of Greek Maritime Education.
Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, 4(4): 332-337.